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They've hit the most expensive jewelry stores in the best cities in the world. Their methods are audacious and precise.

They've hit the most expensive jewelry stores in the best cities in the world. Their methods are audacious and precise.

CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD posted year-to-year gains in adults 25-54 and viewers, and was the #1 Sunday morning news program in those categories, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for March 16.

60 MINUTES made the top five, drawing 11.26 million viewers to finish at #5 on the Nielsen list and sweep its timeslot Sunday (March 16) in viewers and key demographics. It was the sixth time this season 60 MINUTES placed #5 or higher for the week.

He's known as Kim Dotcom, and this former hacker-turned Internet entrepreneur lives in a lavish mansion on a vast estate outside Auckland, New Zealand. He leads a lifestyle that is part tech mogul, part Bond villain – and he says, in many ways, his life was inspired by the movies. “Some characters had private islands and super tankers converted into yachts… underwater homes… I got inspired by that,” he tells Bob Simon.

Scott Pelley, anchor and managing editor of the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY, will anchor 'Nelson Mandela: Father of a Nation,' a one-hour 48 Hours PRESENTS special featuring original reporting from CBS News journalists who have covered Mandela's life firsthand and using a quarter-century of rich CBS News footage of his fight for freedom and the human toll it took on a nation. The special will be broadcast tonight, Dec. 7, 2013 (9:00 PM, ET/8:00 PM, CT) on the CBS Television Network.

60 MINUTES (S) made Nielsen's Top 10 list at #9 for the week, drawing an audience of 11.67 million viewers on Easter Sunday. The CBS News magazine was also the #9 program in households, scoring a 7.1/12 in that measurement, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, March 31, 2013.

When Bob Simon first met the Lost Boys, they were a miracle. Forced to flee on foot - some as young as 5 - they wandered across deserts and countries as they fled the civil war in Sudan that killed most of their families. Many died along the way from malnutrition, thirst, even from crocodiles at one point. That they survived to make it to a refugee camp in Kenya, where they met Simon, was a miracle. Getting resettled in the U.S. was another miracle none of them could ever have imagined on their years-long odyssey. And, for a few of them at least, the miracles continue, as Simon reports 12 years later for a 60 MINUTES story to be broadcast Sunday, March 31 (7:00-8:00PM, ET/PT).

60 MINUTES was named the winner of two Peabody Awards today for stories reported in Africa by Bob Simon and in the U.S. by Scott Pelley.

The Catholic sister at the center of a disagreement between most of America's nuns and the Vatican says one of the reasons for the dispute is the fact that a nun's first obedience is to God. Sister Pat Farrell, who heads the group singled out by the Vatican for doing things like hosting speakers promoting 'radical feminist themes,' talks to Bob Simon for a 60 MINUTES report to be broadcast Sunday, March 17 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Several signs told him not to try to beat his own 700-foot free diving record that day. There was technical trouble with the sled that was to take him down to 800 feet, the water was choppy and an ear problem had prevented his training in the critical days before the dive. But Herbert Nitsch, known as "The Deepest Man on Earth" for the 32 world records in free diving he held, tried for yet another and nearly died in the process. After months of rehabilitation, Nitsch tells Bob Simon in the diver's first interview since the career-ending dive that he knew then he shouldn't have dived that day. Nitsch's story, including the first footage of his fateful dive, will be told on the next edition of 60 MINUTES SPORTS, premiering Wednesday, March 6 at 9:00 PM, ET/PT on SHOWTIME.

CBS announced today that 60 MINUTES will not be broadcast on Sunday Feb. 3 due to Super Bowl XLVII coverage this weekend.

60 MINUTES will be preempted this Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013 by CBS Sports' coverage of the American Football Conference Championship game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots.

60 MINUTES made the Nielsen Top 10 for the fifth time in six broadcasts, managing to finish among America's most-watched programs despite airing at the same time as the Golden Globe Awards. 60 MINUTES drew 14.05 million viewers to finish at #9 for the week.

Bob Simon speaks to two of the sport's top performers for a 60 MINUTES story that will bring viewers hundreds of feet under the sea, where records are being broken and lives risked. Simon's story will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Jan. 13 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Get a sneak peek below!

He has just won the top award in soccer for a fourth time in a row, only a few weeks after breaking the 40-year-old record for scoring the most goals in a calendar year. And he's only 25. What's next for Lionel Messi? More goals and more records, for sure, but he is more focused on his club, he tells Bob Simon in a rare interview to be featured on the premiere edition of 60 MINUTES SPORTS airing on SHOWTIME on Wednesday, Jan. 9 (10:00 PM, ET/PT).

Simon's report on FC Barcelona will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday, Jan. 6 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Get a sneak peek below!

60 MINUTES is set to present AN EVENING OF MUSIC hour-long special devoted solely to the most prominent vocal artists of our time. The special is set to air this Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. Musicians Adele, Rodriguez, and Taylor Swift will be profiled.

The first edition of 60 MINUTES SPORTS will feature a rare interview with Lionel Messi, the record-breaking soccer player considered by many to be the best of all time. Bob Simon went to Spain to talk to Messi, an Argentine who plays for FC Barcelona, to interview the man who just broke the 40-year-old record for scoring the most goals in a calendar year. Messi is only 25 years old. The profile will be featured on the series premiere of 60 MINUTES SPORTS, a new magazine program from the makers of the iconic CBS News series 60 MINUTES, the originator of the television genre. The monthly, one-hour 60 MINUTES SPORTS premieres on Wednesday, Jan. 9 at 10:00 PM, ET/PT on SHOWTIME and represents the first time original 60 MINUTES content will air on premium television.